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Pritzker: Full approval of Pfizer COVID vaccine should mean more vaccinations
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Will the Food and Drug Administration giving full approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine lead to more people getting the shot? Pritzker says he sure hopes so, especially since he ...
Aug 24, 2021 State of Illinois/Illinois Information Service
Biden to stick with Aug. 31 Afghanistan withdrawal deadline
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden has accepted a Pentagon recommendation to remove U.S. troops from Afghanistan by an Aug. 31 deadline, an administration official told Reuters on Tuesday. Bide...
Aug 24, 2021 Groups of people wait on tarmac at Kabul's airport, Afghanistan August 23, 2021. SATELLITE IMAGE 2021 MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES/Handout via REUTERS
State: Peoria Civic Center COVID-19 testing site not reopening
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - The COVID-19 testing site at the Peoria Civic Center isn't re-opening after all. The Illinois Department of Public Health tells our news partner 25 News the site -- which was ...
Aug 24, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Taliban say they have not agreed to U.S. pullout deadline extension
(Reuters) - Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers said on Tuesday they wanted all foreign evacuations from the country completed by an Aug. 31 deadline and they would not agree to an extension. The hardlin...
Aug 24, 2021 FILE PHOTO: An evacuee from Afghanistan walks towards a transportation bus after landing at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, August 22, 2021. U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Jan K. Valle/Handout via REUTERS
Afghan evacuation on 'war footing' as G7 meets on pullout deadline
(Reuters) - Western troops at Kabul airport worked frantically on Tuesday to evacuate people from Afghanistan before an Aug. 31 deadline as U.S. President Joe Biden faced growing pressure to negotiate...
Aug 24, 2021 Afghans board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III transport plane during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Afghanistan, August 22, 2021. U.S. Air Force/Handout via REUTERS
Hawaii governor urges visitors to stay away amid COVID surge
(Reuters) - Hawaii Governor David Ige urged residents and visitors to restrict travel to the U.S. state to essential business activities amid a surge in cases of COVID-19 in the islands. The governor ...
Aug 24, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A surfboard concession stand is closed on Waikiki Beach due to the business downturn caused by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. April 28, 2020. Picture taken April 28, 2020. REUTERS/Marco Garcia
Facing divisions, U.S. House Democrats postpone vote on $3.5 trln Biden plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives early Tuesday postponed a vote to advance President Joe Biden's ambitious plan to expand social programs, as liberals and centrists...
Aug 24, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) answers questions from reporters during her weekly news conference, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., August 6, 2021. REUTERS/Gabrielle Crockett/File Photo
Accident on Route 29 injures 4
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. -- All lanes of Route 29 were shut down at the intersection of Washington St. in Rome after an accident Monday afternoon around 3 p.m. According to the Peoria County Sheriff's Offi...
Aug 23, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Man found dead in Three Sisters Park; no foul play suspected
CHILLICOTHE, Ill. -- A man was found unresponsive and not breathing in Three Sisters Park Sunday just after 5:30 p.m. by the Chillicothe Police Department and Peoria County Sheriff's Department. The m...
Aug 23, 2021 Midwest Communications
UPDATE: Peoria woman found dead ID'd; person of interest arrested
UPDATE - 2:30 p.m. 8/23/21 Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the woman found dead as 37-year-old Ashley Tankersley, of South Madison Park, Peoria. The autopsy demonstrated she suffere...
Aug 23, 2021 Peoria County Sheriff's Office
